Some operations in memory are astonishingly elegant. One of them is answering, almost for free, a question that at first glance seems expensive: “Is this item in this set?”. For that task ...
Before your browser loads this page —or any site with a padlock— a silent conversation takes place in a few milliseconds. It is the TLS handshake (TLS, Transport Layer Security: the protocol that encr...
Git is arguably the most widely used tool in software development, and yet almost nobody needs to know how it works internally to use it. But understanding its data model explains why it behaves the w...
WebAssembly (or Wasm for short) is a low-level binary format that browsers can execute at near-native speed. It was born with a concrete promise: that a web application could run as fast as an install...
When you send a message through a messaging app, the temptation is to think that “encryption” protects everything. But there is a huge difference between encryption in transit and end-to-e...
Imagine a burger that did not require raising, feeding or slaughtering any animal. It is not a magic trick or a decades-old novelty: it is lab-grown meat, also called cultivated meat or cellular meat....
The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved something that seemed impossible: detecting the atmosphere of a rocky planet similar to Earth that orbits in the habitable zone of its star. It is called LH...
Meta has had to withdraw its new artificial intelligence tool called Muse Image just a few days after launching it. The feature, which arrived on Instagram on Tuesday, allowed users to use the Meta AI...
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and two of its former engineers whom it accuses of having taken trade secrets when they left the company to work at the artificial intelligence startup. The co...
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a historic agreement with John Deere, the agricultural machinery giant, which obliges the company to allow farmers and independent workshop...
Did you know that the price you pay for services such as Office 365 or Microsoft’s cloud storage depends not only on the company, but also on the value of the dollar? Microsoft has just announce...
Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe has successfully completed its flyby of the asteroid Torifune, an extremely high-precision maneuver in which it came within just 800 meters of the space rock while ...